The film is based on the 1890 Birchall-Benwell Affair, one of the most sensational murder cases in Canadian history. A gruesome discovery in the Blenheim Swamp, Oxford County let to the trial of a British aristocrat in Woodstock’s Old Town Hall. Although hanged
for the murder of Fredrick Benwell, Reginald Birchall is still considered by some to have been innocent of this hedonist crime.
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